Snake45

If you like violence and mayhem, Battlebots is on tonight. IT'S ROBOT FIGHTIN' TIME!

Now I am sad....

He gave us many laughs on Johnny Carson and David Letterman. Sad to hear of his condition--that's what took my Mom in 2015. It's hard to watch and gets harder every day.

I still have the AMT '69 I built in 1969. It's about due for a good cleaning/restoration--I should put that on my To Do list. I still have the original box and I think all the original optional parts (I built it as a mild custom). Come to think of it, it would be fun to do a current day version of that exact build, coming as close as possible, using a common Revell '69 Coupe kit, and display the old and new ones together.

Very sharp, very clean build! I'd be proud to have that one on my own shelf! Well done and model on!

Very VERY cool project! Drive on!

I WISH I knew the line I was looking for--that's why I watched the whole thing. All I remember is that the rest of the episode was stupid and lame but this one line from Becker was absolutely hilarious. Closest thing I found to "really funny" was this line from an early episode, maybe even the pilot: "HEY! This is a doctor's office, not an Iranian pep rally!" Hey, I didn't write it, I'm just quoting it, don't get made at me. I watched it all for free on Pluto TV. Pluto's free and worth every penny.

Different and therefore interesting and cool! Are you planning to do anything with it, or leave it just as you found it?

Back in the '80s I worked for a publisher that got a LOT of magazines each month to circulate around. One of them was Model Railroader. I've never been or wanted to be a model railroader but I'd page through these magazines and it was a rare month I didn't learn something that I could apply to my airplane modeling at the time.

VERY cool project, keep us updated on these!

That came out pretty darn nice! Well done and model on!

Great, Tim! Got you on my master list as entrant #7. We need one more!

I was looking for a few green cars to add to my Polished Plastic collection.

Huh. I could have sworn on the rundown they had Birdman in a Mustang.

If you're worried about losing detail, you'll lose more of it if you do that. I'd have put the foil on before the primer, and let the final polish-out remove the paint from the foil. That works for me.

So the 405's America's List five are set. And America's List is on! Intro/preview last night and the action starts next week. Looks like a true Who's Who of America's baddest-ass street racers, and I was pleased to see the new kid from Cali, Brandon, on the list. He earned his place there. Glad to see Precious will be representing for Memphis. She belongs there. Surprised that Dennis Bailey's not, after he did so well in Mega Cash Days. Maybe he couldn't take a bunch more time off work, or something. From the previews, it looks like the action will be wild! I notice in the rundowns, they had JJ listed for Zip Tie and Tricia for Hummingbird, when I would expected it the other way around. Also looks like maybe Zip Tie blows up an engine on the line--and in the previews of the season, I saw Heifer, which wasn't in the rundown, so it looks like somebody had to substitute Heifer in and then start back down in the #20 slot (according to the new rules). Birdman seems to be running Boosted's Mustang if I saw correctly. Looks like it will be a VERY INTERESTING next 12 weeks!

My bad--copy and paste from last round, forgot to changed the date. It's fixed now. Thanks for catching that. Traditionally, we start with eight others, and then I come in as Number Nine, although the last two rounds I didn't get around to declaring until the last week or two. Soon as we have eight in, I'll declare, because I think I know what I want to do this time.

BEFORE you lay paint over that: Is this a name-brand foil such as Reynolds or Alcoa? It might be too thick. Get a cheap generic brand, or the Walmart house stuff. It's very thin--not as thin as BMF but pretty thin. If you used the thick stuff, peel it off, wash the area with rubbing alcohol, and apply the cheap stuff. To get it to nestle into the letters, use the tip of a wooden toothpick, and/or a hard rubber pencil eraser. I use both methods and both work. Good luck and keep us posted!

Finished up Becker this morning--129 episodes. Well, 127 I guess. Pluto TV doesn't have episodes 101 and 102 for some reason. I never did find the super-funny line I was looking for. So either it's in one of those two episodes, or I don't think it's funny anymore, or it was SO good they had to cut it out. Sigh.

Looking good, NZ! GITTER DONE: Here's The List so far for Round 11. We have six. We need two more. ROUND 11: FINISH DATE JUNE 30, 2021 Misha: Chopped T coupe Altered Ksnow: '77 Camaro Nzanglia: '65 Mustang modified Whosurdaddy209: 1/12 '67 Vette #1 Model Citizen: Undecided, possibly a 1/32 something Tom Geiger: '53 Studebaker Gullwing

I feel ya! About 30 years ago I was a member of an IPMS club that was mainly military-oriented but welcomed everyone. There was one guy there who would do that with airplanes--buy rare ones and then build them in the next month. His stuff wasn't as good as the things (airplanes) I built in high school. But he was a nice guy. Kinda shy/quiet, very polite, very complimentary about other people's models. He'd ask advice on how to do this or that, and listen intently to the answer and then apparently try very hard to apply the lesson. Over a period of a couple years I watched him get better---up to just about passable. What I grew to like about him was that he ALWAYS had a model for the contest table, every single months, while the club had a number of "experts" and "master modelers" who were lucky to get one thing built a year. (A couple of them, I don't think I EVER saw a finished model from.) When he finally won his first contest ribbon--2nd place in a category--he couldn't have been happier if he'd won the Nationals. And I shared his joy. Sometimes I wonder how he's doing now.

Finished up the polish of the nice green plastic on an AMT Cobra body. Now to do the hood and trunk lid.

Agree. My next step would be to let it soak in the Super Clean for three or four days. I recently stripped a body that took nearly a week in SC, but in the end the paint DID all come off.

FOUR PIGS for a Modelhaus '67 Cougar? I've seen unbuillt original '67 and '68 Cougar kits go for less than half of that recently!

Coincidentally, I just finished polishing up an AMT Craftsman '66 Skylark. The Cobra and the Skylark aren't the same color at all. The Skylark is "deeper." I wish the Cobra was molded in the same stuff. Oh well.